{"id":10878,"date":"2018-01-12T00:58:44","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T07:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=10878"},"modified":"2018-01-12T10:33:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:33:02","slug":"the-irony-of-the-iiwi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/the-irony-of-the-iiwi\/","title":{"rendered":"The Irony of the Iiwi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weltmuseumwien.at\/object\/426244\/?offset=1&amp;lv=list\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10879\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10879\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screenshot-2017-12-27-14.12.55.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2017-12-27 14.12.55\" width=\"315\" height=\"690\" srcset=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screenshot-2017-12-27-14.12.55.png 315w, http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screenshot-2017-12-27-14.12.55-137x300.png 137w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1850, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/bibliography\/119993#\/summary\">A.B. Reichenbach<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biodiversitylibrary.org\/page\/51447450#page\/483\/mode\/1up\">wrote of the 2018 ABA Bird of the Year<\/a> that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It is called &#8220;Kleidervogel&#8221; [garment bird,\u00a0<em>vestiaria<\/em>] because the inhabitants of these islands once\u00a0used the feathers to create the magnificent red feather capes and other ornaments worn by their chieftains during ceremonies. As a result, the bird became very valuable and was subjected to significant persecution, as many individuals were required for such a garment. Now that the inhabitants are being supplied with European products, the capes will probably fall out of fashion and the bird, which has become rare, will probably increase again.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, those vaunted products\u00a0included rabbits, housecats, and\u00a0mosquito-borne disease, which now seem likely to exterminate the iiwi far more efficiently and far more definitively than even the feather hunters were able to do.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about some of the efforts underway to save the iiwi and its island habitats at the website of <a href=\"https:\/\/abcbirds.org\/bird\/iiwi\/\">American Bird Conservancy<\/a> and on this species&#8217; very own page as the ABA&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aba.org\/2018-bird-of-the-year\/\">2018 Bird of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10904\" src=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-12-at-12.31.59-PM.png\" alt=\"2018 bird of year\" width=\"296\" height=\"263\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1850, A.B. Reichenbach\u00a0wrote of the 2018 ABA Bird of the Year that It is called &#8220;Kleidervogel&#8221; [garment bird,\u00a0vestiaria] because the inhabitants of these islands once\u00a0used the feathers to create the magnificent red feather capes and other ornaments worn by their chieftains during ceremonies. As a result, the bird became very valuable and was subjected &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/the-irony-of-the-iiwi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Irony of the Iiwi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[653],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10878"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10905,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10878\/revisions\/10905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}